Holder for talking-machine records.



W. H. WOERHEIDE. HOLDER FOR TALKING MACHINE RECORDS.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT-27,1913.

WILLIJLM H. WOERHEIDE, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

HOLDER FOR TALKING-MACHINE RECORDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. June 2%, 1&1.

Application filed October 27, 1913. Serial No. 797,440.

To all 114mm it may, concern:

Be it known that I, lViLLIAM H. Nonnunion, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in Orange, in the county 'of hlsscx and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Talking-ll lachine Records, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to holders for talking machine records, the object being to produce a holder from which the records may be taken only one at a time, and which re- .quires replacement of a removed record before removal of another record.

Talking machine records are commonly placed in cabinets or racks, from which the records may be taken, as desired, and be placed at the Will of the user, either immediately following the use of a record, or after av number of records have been removed and used. This practice is highly objectionable, particularly, for two reasons: Firstly, it provision is made in the cabinet, rack, or other holder for the records for keeping them according to some prearranged plan, as by an index system, there is great liability of the original arrangement of the records being deranged, owing to accident or confusion in the return of the records to the holder from which they were taken. Secondly, the records, if taken from the holder more than one at a time and laid aside after being used, are liable to be injured when laid one upon another, or laid upon some object that would be injurious to the delicate surtlces of the records. By my improvement, I provide a record holder so constructed as to make it imperative that each and every record taken from the holder be returned to its original place in the holder, previous to the removal of another record, and there is absolutely no opportunity for disorder in the arrangement of a collection of records, -and absence of occasion for in jury to the records, as is possible in the use, of record holders permitting the removal of a number oi. records before replacing them in the. holder from which they were taken.

In the use of the preferred form of my invention, the records are placed, singly, in movable holders and may be removed therefrom by first shifting a holder to an abnormal position. Primarily all of the holders are unlocked and any one of them may be moved from its normal position to permit the removal of the record therein, but when such movement is imparted to such holder, the remaining holders are automatically locked in their normal position. Therefore, any one of the records may be positioned r'or removal but after a selection has been made and while the selected record holder occupies its abnormal position, no other record can be removed. When the selected record is removed from its holder, the latter is automatically. locked and cannot be restored to normal position until the removed. record is replaced. lVl'ien a record is replaced in its holder the latter is automatically unlocked and may be readily shifted back to its normal position, and such movement will auto-- matically unlock all of the remaining holders, thereby permitting any one of the hold ers to be selected and the removal of the record therefrom.

From the foregoing it will be-noted that four different features are present in the preferred form of my invention. First, all of the record holders are normally unlocked and any one of them may be shifted to permit the removal of a record. Second, when a record holder is. shifted from its normal position the remainingrecord holders are automatically locked. Third. when a record is removed f om a. holder, the latter is automatically locked in an abnormal position. so that all of the holders are then locked and no other record can be removed. Fourth, when a record is replaced. its holder is automatically unlocked and may be restored to normal position, thereby unlocking the remaining holders and permitting the user to make a new selection.

It will be noted that the user cannot make a mistake in replacing: a record, the only accessible holder being the one from which the record-was withdrawn. Aside from the advantage. of positively maintaining the original arrang'enwnt of the records. there also the advantage oi compelling the user to replace each record. instead or permitting the delicate records to accumulate where they are liable to be injured by contact with each other or by useless and carcless handling.

Figure I is a side elevation of my record holder, the cabinet being shown in section. Fig. II is an enlarged vertical section, showing a portion of one of the record holders and parts associated therewith. Fig. in is a detail view of one of the fixed partitions. Fig. IV is an enlarged vertical section, taken approximately on the line-1V-IV, Fig. IT. Fig. V is an enlarged fragmentary detail view, sl'iowing one of the record holders moved from its normal position, and the remaining record holders locked in normal positions. Fig. V1 is a perspective view-of one of the record holders. Fig.- VII is a perspective view of the spreader through the medium o l. which a record holder is unlocked when a record is replaced.

in the accon'nmnying drawings: A. designates a cabinet provided with a door E. Record holders, which will be presently describml, are supported by a base member 1 arranged within the cabinet ll. and having upstanding side wall Each record holder is lnet'erablv in the form of a cradle or semi circular receptacle, comprising side frames .3 and a felt lining llitted to said side frames. The record holders are open at the top to receive the records 5, and the lower edges of the records rest upon spreaders 6 having certain functions to be hereinafter described. The side frames of each record holder are suitably connected together and the extended lower portions of these side frames serve as a housing for locking devices to be described;

7 designates a pivot rod passing through all of the record holders and supported by the upstanding side walls 2 of the base member 1. All of the record holders are pivotally supported by the pivot rod 7 and any one of the record holders may be turned on the pivot rod 7 from its normal position, shown in full lines, Fig. I, to an abnormal position shown by dotted lines, Fig. I. It will be noted that when the record holders occupy their normal position in the cabinet the records cannot be removed, but when a holder is shifted to the position seen in dotted lines the record may be readily lifted from said holder.

Latch members, in theform of a row of latch bolts 8 are slidably fitted to the record holders, said latch bolts having, reduced ends 8, shown most clearly in Fig. IV. The latch bolts abut against each other and their reduced ends project into arcuate slots 9 formed in fixed partitions 10L The primary function of these latch bolts is performed when one of the record holders is shifted from its normal position, the remaining record holders being then automatically locked in their normal position, as will be presently described.- The means for shifting the latch bolts comprises springs 11, secured to the upstanding base members 2 the record holders and pressing against thrust bolts 12 abutting against the endmost latch bolts 8. These springs normally force the latch bolts against each other. The reduced ends 8' of the latch bolts 8 may be moved into the reduced portion of the arcuate slots 9 (Fig. 1H), and the larger body portion of said bolts may be projected into the enlargement 9 of said arcuate slot. Each record holder carries one of the latch bolts and. when a record holder occupies its normal position its latch bolt registers with the enlargement 9' of the arcuate slots 9. i

It will now be normal position for the reason that the reduced ends of its latch bolt may be moved into the narrow portion of the slot 9. But

when one of the latch bolts carried away from its normal position, the remaining bolts are shifted into the enlar ed ends '3 of the arcuate slots, the springs 11 serv' as the means for shifting the latch bolts. 'lherefore, when one of the record holders is shifted to carry its latch bolt away from the rcmainiing latch bolts, the latter are antomatically projected into the fixed partition members 10 to loci; the remaining record holders in their normal position, see Fig. V.

The shifted record holder is not locl'ef. in its abnormal position until the record is removed therefrom and it is then looked through the medium of the following mechanism: Each record holder is'provided with wings 15, and a sleeve 16 connecting said wings the corresponding latch bolt 8 being slidably fitted to said sleeve. A pair of diverging plates 17 hinged together at their lowerends.arelooscly supported by the sleeve 16. snlallguide pin ldconnectingthc wings 15, passes through the upper portions of the diverging plates 17. The plates 17 are formed with shoulders 17 which normally lie directly below the lower edges of the wings l5 so a substantially smooth surface is formed at the junction of the lower of the wings 15 and the diverging plates 17. Light springs 20 surrounding the sleeves 16 tend to spread the diverging plates 17, and these plates are attimes positively sepa 'ated by the spreader members 6 arranged between the upper ends of said plates. Each spreader 6 is in the form of an arm pivoted at 19 and having a wedge shaped head which supports the record in the record holder.

When one of the record holders is shifted from its normal position, the latch bolts 8 adjacent to said holder are pushed against the diverging plates 17 of the moved holder, and the pressure of these latch bolts tends to push said diverging plates 17 toward each other. The diverging plates 17 are understood thatany one of may be shifted from its prevented from mrtakinfg of such move-- ment While the record is container in the holder, for the r ason that the record holds the spreadcrlllocated at this time between said diverging plates. ll hen the record is removed the spreader is freed and the pressure of the adjacent latch bolts forces the diverging plates toward each other, as seen at the center of Fig. V. The object of this latter operation is to in'event'an empty record holder from being restored to normal position. lVhen the diverging plates are moved toward each other the adjacent latch bolts are located dir ti below the wings 15, which form part of the shii'ted holder, and if an attempt is made to restore the holder, the Wings 15 will strike the adjacent latch bolts 8 (Fig. l lVhen ti -e record is restored to its holder the sore: ler 13 is engaged by the record and forced between the diverging plates o separate said plates, thereby locating the shoulders I? of rid plates directly below the lower edges of the Wings 15. A substantially smooth clined surface is then presensed to rho adjacent latch bolts, the lower ed 1 Wings 15 being covered by the 7 plates, and the record holder may he restored to its normal position. This will locate all of the parts in their i'iormal posi ion (Fi IV) and any one of the record holders may then be shifted to permit the removal of selected record.

Generally stated, the features found in my mechanism are as follows: Any record iolder and its latch bolt may be shifted to an abnormal position, vith the result of releasing all of the other latch bolts and permitting movement of id latch bolls by the springs 11 into the enlargements 9 of the arcnate slots 9 in the fixed partitions. This looks all of the record holders excepting the shifted holder, and itis eventually locked in an abnormal position noon the removal of the record. lVhen the record is restored to its holder the proper SilllQilClQ 6 force between the diverging plates to nnloclq s d record holder, and Whei the record holder is restored the remaining record holders unlocked by separating the ad acent locking; bolts through the medium of the diverging plates 1?.

To hold the record holders in a ivredetermined normal pol ion, inwvhicli the latch bolts are alined or in a strai 'h'b row, 1' provide a. stop rod 21 (Fig. l; ongage/d by the Wings 15 of all of the record holders, and springs 23 for forcing said Wings against the stop rod. Tlie springs 23 areheld by rods 2-land25 and thelree ends of said springs bear against rods carried by the record holders.

llhile l described my invention a holder for talking machine 3fO1TlS it is to inoval oi its cente he nnrlerstomi that I do not myself to its use this cla lily holder is priinz. fl intendei set forth but may be utilized. :Yzlrious other olri' tts for which the i i of the holder is suited.

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1 A dev'e of th character described comprising; a series oi holders each of which movable from a normal position to permit the rem val of its content a series of ahno ling latch lllilll(l'5 n'iovaiiile in said lwldera, and neans in. the holders i said latch members to ioclr the rcn holders when one of then: moved to an abnormal pos' 52, fr :lcrice is inoralilo i i-oi i normal p salon to an ah normal position to permit the removal of iis contents, a series oi latch nieinhers slid: ahlc in said holders. said latch lllQ/llllk be inc o erahle to loci; certain of said holders on one oi. the latch members is mowed from' its normal posi n rclai' e to the re mainline latch nicnila i each 0. said latch members hein mom-lie with the corresponding; holders i i 3 'iainin latch. holders when one of the position.

3. i l device the character (lQSC'iLQGd.

coinpri. or; a series pivoted holih each of which lS movable l'rom a LHlfll position to an abnormal position to permit the rets, a Y av oi: cotlperahle latch members slidahle said holders, moans tending to hold sale latch members 111 Q gagrement with each other each said latch members he: movable with one or 11d holders to L131 J said means lo shirt the einainlnglatch me i one to their 01 {LljlVG s is rnoved [r demo-e the char cter described comprising a of of which is movable to an alon al 31 s:

norn l position to rm. the re moral of 1 content row of abutting latch nieiniir able in holders, springs'teadrng hold said latch nieinhers in engagement 1 .ir' cli members i L with one of said holders to permit said springs to shift the remaining latch to their op erative positio s- Wlren. QJVOE said holders moved to an abnorn'ial position,

device or the character described comprising s iesm holders, each of which is movable 1? m nomal position to an it riecl o said hers arranged members cartee holders each .i

h other, each of said to receive said locking members, said looking members being ineii'ective when all of the holders occupy their normal position, and means whereby said locking members are operated to lock the remaining holders in normal positions in response to a movement or? one of said holders.

6. A device of the character described comprising a series of holders each of which is movable from a normal position to an abnormal position to permit the removal of its contents, :1 series of locking ITIGIIlbGIS carried by said holders, :1. series of fixed mc1nbers arranged between said holders. each of said fixed members being provided with a slot having. an enlargement adapted to receive an adjacent locking member, said looking l'l'lBIllbQI'S being ineil'ective when all of the holders occupy their norn'ial position, ainlmcans for operating said lOCklHQ members in response to a morement of one of said holders whereby the remaining holders are locked in their normal positions.

7. A device of the character described comprising series of holders, each of which is movable from a normal position to an abnormal position to permit the removal of its conte11ts,'a!ujl means for automatically locking any one of said holders in its abnormal position, upon the removal of its members carried by said holders, and spread ers for operating said yieldable members.

8. A. device of the character described comprising a series of holders, each of which is movable from a normal position to an abnormal position to permit the removal of its contents, locking any one of said holders in its abnormal position upon the removal of .its contents; said means including yieldable members carried by said holders, and spreaders for operating-said yieldable members, said spreaders being operable through the medium of the contents of said holders.

9. A device of the character described comprising a series of holders, each of Which is movable from a normal position to an abnormal position to permit the removal of its contents, and means for automatically locking any one of said holders in its abnormal position upon the removal of its contents, combined ivith means carried by the holders whereby the moved holder is automatically unlocked, upon the restoration of its contents.

YVILLIAM H. WOERHEIDE.

In the presence Of E. K. CLARK, E. B. LINN.

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